NEW DELHI: YES Bank with over 0.40 crore shares changing hands was leading among the most traded stocks on NSE on Wednesday. Shares of Reliance Communications (number of shares traded: 0.14 crore), MPS Infotecnics (number of shares traded: 0.10 crore), Suzlon Energy (number of shares traded: 0.08 crore), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals (number of shares traded: 0.06 crore), Sunil Hitech (number of shares traded: 0.06 crore), Oil Country Tub (number of shares traded: 0.05 crore), Urja Global (number of shares traded: 0.05 crore), Vodafone Idea (number of shares traded: 0.05 crore) and Federal Bank (number of shares traded: 0.04 crore) also featured among the most traded stocks on the NSE. YES Bank (Rs 43.23 crore) was also leading the pack of most active stocks in value terms. It was followed by RIL (Rs 13.60 crore), CreditAccess Grameen (Rs 9.81 crore), InterGlobe Aviation (Rs 9.29 crore), Schaeffler India (Rs 8.95 crore), DCB Bank (Rs 8.24 crore), Infosys (Rs 6.14 crore), TCS (Rs 5.01 crore), Maruti Suzuki (Rs 4.82 crore) and HDFC Bank (Rs 4.76 crore).

The NSE Nifty index was trading 2.95 points down at 11,659.65 while the BSE Sensex was down 16.58 points at 39,114.46 around 09:16 am.

In the Nifty index, YES Bank (up 1.88 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 1.12 per cent), Wipro (up 0.98 per cent), NTPC (up 0.92 per cent) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 0.86 per cent) were among the top gainers.

While GAIL (India) (down 1.05 per cent), Tata Steel (down 0.69 per cent), Tata Motors (down 0.68 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 0.67 per cent) and Dr.

Reddy's Laboratories (down 0.60 per cent) were the top losers in the index.